Among topics discussed at our September 2018 meeting:
- Dialect and how some authors and readers embrace it, and other authors and readers eschew it.
- Gender and race perspective from earlier times and how they are reflected in fiction.
- Ways to get short stories shorter, including set a time limit for how long it will take to read them and edit them accordingly.
- Chris’ entry for a one-act-play script competition, his coming noir reading event, and his submission of his short story “Hop, Skip, Jump” to horror publisher JournalStone.
- Dave’s new short story, set in India, which we will read and critique at our next meeting.
- Russ’ multiple projects and opportunities for submission currently in play, and his delivery of his manuscript Soldiers of the Soil, for critique by the group in its November meeting.
- John’s work on this murder mystery novel set in Bucks County during World War II
- Whether there are more open guidelines for acceptable novel length if the novel is an historic novel.
- Other authors and related movies.
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